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left something unsaid. The great disadvantage at- 

 tending transplanting oaks to situations not very fa- 

 vourable to their growth, is, that the plant which, un- 

 der any circumstances, receives irreparable and often 

 mortal harm, from the severe injuries of removal, has 

 to contend, in this mutilated condition, at the same 

 time with the uninjured occupiers of the soil (the 

 nurses or the native weeds), and with the unpropitious 

 situation ; whereas, when the plant springs up from 

 the acorn a native, especially when it is assisted at 

 first by weeding or hoeing, the part above ground 

 being always in proportion to that below, and re- 

 ceiving due nourishment, it contends with the occu- 

 piers on more equal terms, and encounters the steri- 

 lity of the soil, or the severity of the climate, with 

 all its natural powers unimpaired. 



As it is the natural condition of the seedling to 

 grow up under the shelter of the parent tree, so also 

 does it happen, that it rises under this shelter with 

 greater luxuriance and vigour than when exposed to 

 the evaporation, and parching sun, and battering 

 wind, of the bare country. 



We have admired the beautiful, straight, luxuriant, 

 shoots of the young hollies, thrown out under shel- 

 ter, and have compared them with the dry stunted 

 shoots of the young holly in the open country, 

 though in the former case their roots had to contend 



